Reviews

Poleshchuk I. K. Extractivism of the Far North: Ways to resolve conflicts // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2022. V.7. №4. P. 165-172.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2022-7-4-165-172

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Book Review: «Resource Curse» and Social Expertise in Post-Soviet Siberia: Anthropological Perspectives /D. A. Funk, V. V. Poddubikov, E. V. Miskova [and others]. Moscow : Demos Typography LLC, 2019. — 312 p.

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Ilya K. Poleshchuk, Junior Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidental Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Prosp. Vernadskogo, 82, Moscow, 119571.
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Trotsuk I.V. A few words about (un)certainty and its management in the rural part of the contemporary uncertain world // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2023. V.8. №4. P. 174-182.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2023-8-4-174-182

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Review of the book: Scoones I. (Ed.) (2023) Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Development, Rugby: Practical Action Publishing. 180 p. URL: https://practicalactionpublishing.com/ book/2667/pastoralism-uncertainty-and-development

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Irina V. Trotsuk, DSc (Sociology), Professor, Sociology Department, RUDN University; Senior Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Intercenter, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. Vernadskogo Prosp., 82. Moscow, 119571.
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Kurakin A.A. The beginning of economic reforms in rural China // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2023. V.8. №4. P. 183-187.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2023-8-4-183-187

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Book review: Oi J.C. (2023). Rural China Takes off. Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform, Saint Petersburg: Academic Studies Press/Bibliorossika.

About the author

Alexander A. Kurakin, PhD (Sociology), Senior Researcher, Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology, Higher School of Economics; Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Myasnitskaya Str., 20, Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation.
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Babashkin V. V. Fatigue from intelligence // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2024. V.9. №1. P. 141-149.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2024-9-1-141-149

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Review of the book: Zverev V. V. (2023). Progress, Community and the Future of Russia in the Works of V. P. Vorontsov. Moscow; Saint Petersburg: Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Center for Humanitarian Initiatives, 452 p. ISBN 978-5-8055-0427-4

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Vladimir V. Babashkin, DSc (History), Professor, Department of Political-Legal Disciplines and Social Communications, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Vernadskogo Prosp., 82., Moscow 119571.
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Kuznetsov I. A. In search of a “self-determining social reality” // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2024. V.9. №1. P. 150-155.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2024-9-1-150-155

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Review of the book: Kedrov N.G. (2022). Apocrypha of Agrarian Historiography. Essays on the Study of Collectivization in Soviet and Russian Historical Science, Vologda: Polygraph-Periodicals, 2022, 339 p. ISBN 978-5-91965-300-4

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Igor A. Kuznetsov, PhD (History), Senior Researcher, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Vernadsky Avenue, 82, Moscow, 119571; Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Gazetny Lane, 3-5, Moscow, 125009.
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Nikulin A. M., Nikulina E.S. Pavel Zyryanov: community, state, personality in the Russian history // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2024. V.9. №1. P. 156-162.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2024-9-1-156-162

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Review of the book: Expanding Scientific Horizons...( 2023) Collection of Articles in Memory of the DSc (History) P.N. Zyryanov (for the 80th Birthday). Ed. by L. V. Melnikova, Moscow: Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 352 p. ISBN 978-5-8055-0423-6

About the authors

Alexander M. Nikulin, PhD (Economics), Head of the Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Vice-Rector for Research, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. Prosp. Vernadskogo, 82, Moscow, 119571.
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Ekaterina S. Nikulina , Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Prosp. Vernadskogo, 82 Moscow, 119571, Russia.
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Trotsuk I. V. Social-spatial features of the Chinese (sub)urbanization // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2024. V.9. №3. P. 265-279.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2024-9-3-265-279

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Review of the book: Xuefei Ren (2023) Urban China, Boston/Saint Petersburg: Academic Studies Press/Bibliorossika.

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Irina V. Trotsuk, DSc (Sociology), Professor, Sociology Department, RUDN University; Senior Researcher, Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Prosp. Vernadskogo, 82, Moscow, 119571.
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Kurakin A. A. Consequences of agrarian reforms // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2024. V.9. №3. P. 280-287.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2024-9-3-280-287

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Review of the book: Verbitskaya O. M. (2022) Russian Village in the 1990s: Agrarian Policy and Society, Moscow: Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Center for Humanitarian Initiatives, 336 p. ISBN 978-5-8055-0410-6

About the author

Alexander A. Kurakin, PhD (Sociology), Senior Researcher, Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidental Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Vernadskogo Prosp., 82, Moscow, 119571, Russia.
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Arkhipova L. M. “Moral life needs memories of the past” // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2024. V.9. №3. P. 288-295.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2024-9-3-288-295

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Review of the book: Smirnov A. A. (2024) “Erect a Monument to the Village...”, Yaroslavl: Filigree, 448 p.

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Lyubov M. Arkhipova, DSc (History), Professor, Department of Russian History, Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushinsky. Respublikanskaya St., 108, Yaroslavl, 150000.
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Babashkin V. V. On the essence of good // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2022. V.7. №3. P. 237-245.

DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2022-7-3-237-245

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Review of the book: Etkind A. (2020) The Nature of Evil. Raw Materials and the State. Moscow: New Literary Review, 504 p. ISBN 978-5-4448-1155-9

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Vladimir V. Babashkin, DSc (History), Professor, Department of Political-Legal Disciplines and Social Communications, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Vernadskogo Prosp., 82, Moscow, 119571, Russia.
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